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Tongue   /təŋ/   Listen
Tongue

noun
1.
A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity.  Synonyms: clapper, glossa, lingua.
2.
A human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language.  Synonym: natural language.
3.
Any long thin projection that is transient.  Synonym: knife.  "Rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark"
4.
A manner of speaking.  "She has a glib tongue"
5.
A narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea.  Synonym: spit.
6.
The tongue of certain animals used as meat.
7.
The flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot.
8.
Metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side.  Synonym: clapper.
verb
(past & past part. tongued; pres. part. tonguing)
1.
Articulate by tonguing, as when playing wind instruments.
2.
Lick or explore with the tongue.



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"Tongue" Quotes from Famous Books



... Goatsnose, made this sign unto him. He inverted his eyelids upwards, wrenched his jaws from the right to the left side, and drew forth his tongue half out of his mouth. This done, he posited his left hand wholly open, the mid-finger wholly excepted, which was perpendicularly placed upon the palm thereof, and set it just in the room where his codpiece had been. ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... hounds in general, and when the hound is on the scent of game this portion of his body gets extremely animated, and tells me, in my own hounds, when they have struck a fresh or a cold scent, and I even know when the foremost hound will give tongue. ...
— Dogs and All About Them • Robert Leighton
... down the street hatless, the big news on his tongue. Rhetta Thayer, in the door of the Headlight office, where she had stood in the pain of one crucified while the shots sounded in Peden's hall, stopped him ...
— Trail's End • George W. Ogden
... girl was sent away at once, and was given a tolerably liberal sum to hold her tongue. She looked after the rest herself when she got to town. She renewed an old acquaintance with the carpenter Engstrand; gave him a hint, I suppose, of how much money she had got, and told him some fairy tale about a foreigner who ...
— Ghosts - A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts • Henrik Ibsen
... a Tongue—she'll rail and smoke till she choke again; then six Gallons of Punch hardly recovers her, and never but ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn


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